Salbari Higher Secondary School (commonly called Salbari Model H.S. School), a school in

Salbari Salbari(Bodo: सालबारि) is one of the sub divisions of Baksa district in the state of Assam, India. History A hundred years ago, there was no village named Salbari, but the place was surrounded by various sal plantations, leading ...

, Baksa,

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, is situated in between the Ulubari village and

bazaar. The school was established in 1955 to impart

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and Assamese medium to the children of the rural and economically backward of the Baksa district. It is one of four schools in the state that are

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model schools.

Location

Salbari is in the Salbari sub-division in the

Baksa District Baksa district ( or ) is an administrative district in the Bodoland Territorial Region of Assam, one of the North-Eastern states of India. The administrative headquarters is at Mushalpur. Manas National Park is a part of this district. Histor ...

. It is situated by

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near the Indo-Bhutan border, and rapidly growing towards becoming a city.

History

The school was established in 1955 as a

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at the initiative of local social workers and well wishers. The school is now upgraded to a higher secondary school with the introduction of 11th and 12th classes of

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stream of the Indian

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. In 2013, the nearby Salbari Bazaar was designated a Plastic Free Zone through the

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of Salbari H.S. School students.

Management

The school is managed by the principal, vice principal and senior teachers. There is a governing council which supervises some administrative affairs and developmental aspects of the school. The working hours of the school are from 9:30 am to 3 pm.

Education

The school imparts education from 6th standard to 12th standard of the Indian education system (10 + 2)

and

, leading to certificates (HSLC, HSSLC).

Model school for education for sustainable development

In 2013, Salbari Higher Secondary School was chosen as a model school by

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for their

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project. Mita Nangia Goswami, the director of Environment Education, cited the school as a success story:

When we went to Salbari for the first time, its campus was an eye sore. It was litter-infested. Toilets were dirty and classrooms a complete mess. After a workshop with them, when we visited again in three months, it was a changed site. Students had made a traffic club which would monitor traffic congestion on campus; dustbins lay at all possible places, steel cups replaced plastic cups. They had also set up a nature library full of environment related books from which the students would borrow, read and write back the moral of the story he/she read, to be awarded if chosen best — thus enhancing reading and comprehension.

The students had also transformed the nearby market area into a ‘Plastic Free Zone’. Since the school is close to the Manas National Park, the students also set up a bird watching club and formed fences to protect saplings they had planted in the school. They made a worm-compost pit in the school backyard, created a gardening cum fruits hub and conserved local fish.Alt URL
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References

{{Reflist, 30em High schools and secondary schools in Assam Trilingual schools Educational institutions established in 1955 1955 establishments in Assam